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Did you know that all blue man are descended from a single individual who lived only 10,000 years ago ?

That's why we call them the blue man group.

Unfortunately, there is still a lot of prejudice against them

Civil Defense is everybody's business. It's your business.

In case of air raid, tune your radio to AM 640 and 1240 kilocycles on your regular radio receiver for Civil Defense Instructions. CONELRAD

ALL broadcasting stations AM, FM, TV in USA/Canada must automatically immediately cease operation, by presidential order

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Cdb_prime_cvr.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAxjkMtJA6E

http://conelrad.blogspot.com/

There is, but you can't see the wind turbine or solar panel on there because I hadn't fitted them yet. The amp and one of the batteries are visible mounted on the downtube; at that point (May 2007) I was just starting to think about some sort of assisted power...

And they've added lots of other bonus things to the legislation. That's why overall I've been opposed to it from the start.

you see the legislative package and Pelosi's plea "we have to pass so you can know what's in it."

Is one of the most troubling pieces of legislation ever passed in any democracy. Aside from the mandate and the insurance things having to do with affordable care, there's a litany of other little tidbits in
the ACA that most Americans have glossed over.

Deep down I believe that most of us won't be feeling all giddy if and when these other things kick in. It happens all the time in DC, a piece of legislation will get past but these little riders show up and now they're past as part of the same legislation. It's bullshit and it's been done too long especially in the light of the backroom deals that were done with the Drug Companies to protect their financial interests package as well.

Affordable Care? No, this whole legislation takes a lot of free market pressure off of providers, insurers and the drug companies because you have to pay them regardless and you can't go anywhere else. On the plus side HealthCare related spending will increase not because of market pressures but because it will be a self-perpetuating engine feeding itself off of more premium dollars and no competition. More double digit cost increases in healthcare so it'll be a great growth industry for the economy right? So premiums will rise to cover those costs and it will be the same like it is now, with millions of Americans unable to afford quality care. Oh and there's also another big benefit if you live in DC, NOVA or Montgomery or Prince Georges County: the size of our bureaucracy in Washington will just get bigger.

Not sure if this will convince you, but drawing down my feeds outside of a web browser helps my productivity--if I've got a browser open, then I'm viewing about 18 different tabs and refreshing feeds when I should be working on other thngs. Having Akregator running lets me read my rss feeds without the temptation of a browser when I have internet connectivity, yet still lets me read downloaded feeds without internet access.

What are you doing reading RSS feeds when you should be working on other things?

Given that a lot of the stuff I work on requires looking stuff up on the Intarwebs, I'm pretty much fucked there; there's always the temptation to browse, and sometimes I just need a break in the middle of hacking. So maybe that works for you, but it's 100% unconvincing, and 100% wrong, for me.

Of course, some people use more than that to avoid distractions, with some of them taking rather extreme steps.

I'm no power user, but neither am I a complete idiot. I really like KDE4. I hit the kickoff, then type in the name of the program and I can run it. I know how to get under the hood and clank around if I need or want to with linux/KDE4. With OSX, everything is very kindergarten-simple...as long as you work their way. If you want to work your way and not theirs, it's up to you to change.

So if I want to view an RSS feed in my browser in KDE - i.e., work my way and not theirs - is it up to me to change, or does Konqueror now support reading feeds itself? :-)

I'm not a command-line commando, either. I'm smart enough to know how to use an application and just finicky enough to want to use it my way. Maybe I've been lucky, but KDE 4 has worked for me from 4.0 on.

KDE 1 worked fine for me, as my primary desktop environment, atop FreeBSD 3.0 many many years ago, and KDE3+FreeBSD 6-or-so was OK when my Mac notebook was getting its disk recovered, but that was when I decided that separate RSS reader applications were not the answer for me.

(Speaking of command lines, hopefully most modern UN*X+X11 combinations, whether Linux distributions or PC-BSD-style desktop *BSDs or..., have XSel as a standard package or even pre-insalled, so you can do the same thing there that you can do on OS X with pbcopy and pbpaste.)

By this same token, a duochrome-colorblind person can petition for color-adjusted films.

Have you ever wondered why movies are trending toward an orange and teal color scheme? That's the scheme that happens to work best with common forms of color blindness.

They created a device that looks ridiculously like an iPad

Yeah it sure does, if you ignore the back, the sides, the lack of button on the front, the big words SAMSUNG, the different size, the different aspect ratio...but holy shit it has a black bezel and rounded corners!
I can't tell them apart.

>>>Andrew Jackson may have been a [slave-owning] democrat, but the party has radically shifted over the ensuing centuries

I can't change history. It's a matter of record that the Supreme Court ruled the Cherokee, Seminaw, etcetera had the legal right to stay in their ancestral lands of Carolina and Tennessee, but President Jackson responded, "The Court has ruled..... now let's see them enforce it," and sent the Indians on a mass migration known as the Trail of Tears in direct violation of the law. History does not change just because we don't like it.

And has the Democrat Party changed that much? Not really. They were the party of slavery for almost 100 years, then the party of segregation for another 100 years, and opposed Eisenhower's Civil Rights Law (by filibustering it until it died) in the 1950s. Even in the 1960s there were many Democrats who filibustered LBJ's civil rights laws (Malcom X called them traitors). More recently the Democrats held a celebration for a man who was a Grand Marshall of the KKK (Senator Byrd). They should have vilified him instead.

Here's an article written by blacks about how the Democrat Party is still the anti-black party:
"Republicans and Democrats Did Not Switch Sides On Racism"
http://blackrepublican.blogspot.com/2012/06/republicans-and-democrats-did-not.html
(Of course you'll somehow argue that black people are too dumb to write articles, and refuse to read it.)

Reminds me of a book I liked to read as a child, the National Geographic Picture Atlas of our Universe. It had some speculative artwork and descriptions of what life on all of the planets in the solar system would be like. (Including Pluto; I miss those days.)

Their depiction of life on Jupiter included gigantic blimp-like creatures and flying, dart-like predators that would cause them to burst.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BjW1avGcuos/S9sT7hfiqXI/AAAAAAAACQQ/8t99BR2oaHI/s1600/papers1.jpeg

If you think the ARPANET resembled anything remotely close to what has since been achieved by millions of unique individuals and groups freely choosing to implement their ideas, you're dreaming.

The ARPANET was about as much of a precursor to the internet as this was a precursor to your modern smartphone.

They are as smart as everyone you've had so far.

No they aren't.. Sociologists and psychologists are one sigma below mathematicians and physicists. I know it's fashionable to pretend that everyone is exactly the same, the physicists and the sociologists, the women and the men, the blacks and the hispanics and the whites and the east asians, but while in today's America you have to pretend out loud that everyone is equal, actually believing it is ridiculous.

Here are several scruffy (and one neck-bearded) Apple associates, and here is one with what looks like dreds, and here are several with arm ink.

It does not make anybody "nuts". The information was corrected, and you can change your position after the fact.

I'm anti-GM, and this is apparently just hybridization gone wrong. If anything, this shows how careful we have to be and not proceed with such a cavalier attitude towards research and implementation.

It still makes you anti-science. If anything, this event shows the advantages of genetic modification: we aren't relying on the random shuffling of genes that can produce unintended side effects such as here. We can, instead, craft the genes to our need with surgical precision, inserting exactly the genes we need and only those.

Keeping this in mind, the short term gains demanded by capitalism gone wrong make it seem pretty damn unreasonable and dangerous to not test the crap out of something like this for an extended period of time.

GM organisms are highly tested, moreso than any other foods and to date have been shown to be just as safe if not more than conventionally bred foods. Despite claims by the anti-GM crowd that little or no testing occurs on these foods, see this list of over 400 different safety assessment studies. Nothing can ever be proven to be 100% safe 100% of the time, even conventional foods as perfectly evidenced by this incident.

For the record, my biggest gripe with GM is what I see as dangerously performed research (practically no containment of any kind)

Can you give examples of this "dangerously performed research" or is that just the way you imagine it happens? I'm genuinely curious what you know about the process that I don't.

...dangerous precedents in patent law (owning genetic sequences)

This reservation I'm actually still on the fence about. There are logical reasons for and against, but I haven't yet spent the brainpower thinking both sides through so I'm currently undecided here.

...using it as an excuse to saturate farms with pesticides (bad for environment, bad for food, and allows for rapid evolution of countermeasures in affected species)

You think farmers want to saturate their farms with pesticide? GM crops require fewer pesticides due to their natural resistance. You could argue that this natural resistance itself could have bad side effects on us, but again that's exactly the kinds of things that are extensively tested for. No one is going to want to put out and be liable for a product that causes more harm than good (well, cigarette companies notwithstanding).

Not to mention the logistical nightmare of recouping research and working out ownership of something that, by its very nature, can move and "infect" other crops. Monsanto deserves to burn in hell for all the grief they have given farmers simply because of the fucking wind acting as a ninja-like salesman.

I agree with you here, but Monsanto isn't the only GM crop company, and you shouldn't be anti-science and anti-GM because of the questionable business practices of one company any more than you should reject computer technology because Windows gets viruses.

What oh ever do you mean? Thank you, Fox News, for keeping us infromed!

http://filkertom-itom.blogspot.com/2007/08/049-wikipirates.html

They've got nothing else to do..."

very nice social bookmaking site its very helpful News On Celebrities

I wear those 80's DEVO Visor glasses What about my politics can you glean from that?

Union Membership over Time

Without a fairly high percent of the workforce pushing for benefits, pay, and working conditions, all businesses race to the bottom.

I wonder what changed....

Union Membership over Time

Rerum Novarum- his answer to Karl Marx. Linked to here along with the rest of The Seven Economics Encyclicals

The OP was referring to WinXP 32-bit, and rounded 3,145,728 bytes to 3.2GB.

"By default Windows apps get 2 GB of address space for user data and 2 GB is reserved for mapping to the kernel's memory. You can change that by putting /3GB in your boot.ini , and you must also set the LARGEADDRESSAWARE option in your linker. "
http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2009/01/01-16-09-virtual-memory.html

Also see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension

For an excellent, very detailed and well-documented read on the current job market, I highly recommend Work's New Age, by Jim Huntington. He keeps up a decent blog, too.

Many sites that report on PHAs (Potentially Hazardous Asteroids) use LD, meaning Lunar Distance. That's pretty descriptive to the general public - "Wow that thing flew right between Earth and the Moon!". According to their archive, KT42 missed Earth by 0.05 LD and was #6 on the all-time closest flyby list.

There is a place called the "Dry Valleys" high in the Antartic mountains that is considered the best terrestrial proxy for Martian conditions. There has been no rain or snowfall there for two million years and it can get cold enough for dry ice to form (whether it does or not I don't know).

Whoa there. I work in the Dry Valleys. It snows there. They are coastal and fairly warm by Antarctic standards. It does not get cold enough for CO2 to freeze. You need to go to Dome C or South Pole to get that cold. I don't study that, so I can't say if it does or not. Also, you described the katabatic winds as if they blow all the time. They don't.

I also work on Mars data and the conditions are drastically different from the Dry Valleys. It's just that the Dry Valleys are the closest we've got here on Earth.

This image from Google's blog post shows that majority of the phishing sites are hosted in the US. Interestingly, most of Africa is relatively "clean", except for Algeria and South Africa.

There are already too many posts asking some variant of "what makes it so bad for women?" or "they have free will, if they're not in the industry it's their own choice." Well i suspect that incidents like this are part of the reason why. I really can't imagine why young women starting to consider their career options might see that and consider staying as far away from the internet professionally as they possibly can.(/sarcasm)

Because the internet induces people to make blog posts using way too many words to say "Hey, some people were being misogynist dicks on the internet. It's not cool."*? Yeah, made me want to stay as far away from the internet as possible...

No, look at that lengthy post -- the three concrete incidents mentioned are people posting misogynistic crap in youtube comments, defacement of a Wikipedia article, and replies to a blog post by Felicia Day. That post specifically mentioned that trolling, in todays culture, is principally an online phenomenon (though it "does seem to be catching on in real life" -- indicating she has no clue what trolling is, see below), not a workplace phenomenon. Are you seriously suggesting that most women considering a career in CS are so confused they think "career in CS" means "posting videos to youtube and writing a blog"? If you want to talk about sexism in the workplace, I'm sure it exists, so surely it's not too much to ask that you actually use an instance of sexism in the workplace instead of something completely different...

*And that post gets bonus points for conflating bullshit spouted because one believes it and bullshit spouted because one knows it will get a response. The former says something about the poster, the latter (this is trolling, btw, the other isn't!) says something about the audience (or at least the troll's estimation of them). To the extent that the rape threats and other dickery espoused in the youtube comments is trolling rather than sincere, it does not demonstrate "that when women do things, there's a certain sort of person who wants to put them down and silence them". Certainly, there still are some of those people, but misogyny trolls don't prove that -- if anything, they prove that feminism is, to some degree, successful, since there's now lots of people who are bothered by the misogyny enough to argue, rather than moving on in apathy. Presumably, there's even more, because there's also the ones who would be bothered by it, if they didn't wisely recognize it as a troll and ignore it.

There are already too many posts asking some variant of "what makes it so bad for women?" or "they have free will, if they're not in the industry it's their own choice." Well i suspect that incidents like this are part of the reason why. I really can't imagine why young women starting to consider their career options might see that and consider staying as far away from the internet professionally as they possibly can.(/sarcasm)

There are also a number of comments about how the women who are in the industry know how to handle the macho bullshit that gets tossed around, implying that it's therefore okay i guess, since some women can put up with it and not all of them are being forced out of the industry. Well of course the women who are still around can handle it, selection bias much? That doesn't mean they should _have_ to handle it though.

You know, every time there's a story about some company, or even most of an entire industry, doing something assholeish to its employees people pop out of the woodwork to say something about how the free market will correct the issue because all the good employees will find work at companies that treat them properly, and the companies abusing their employees will thus inevitable fail. I wonder how much that group overlaps with the group that think women ought to just suck it up when they're treated poorly.

It's funny how when a company/industry/environment treats all their employees badly it's the company that's at fault. This libertarian/republican/conservative viewpoint is that it's up to the employees to fix the problem, but at least the company is still clearly designated as the problem in the equation. But suddenly when the company/industry/environment is specifically targeting women for bad treatment, whether that's intentional or not, and the women choose to go elsewhere, it's not the free market responding to the fault of the company, it's the fault of the women for not being willing to put up with the shit they're dealt.

Noted sci-fi author John Barnes recently wrote something about this in his blog: http://thatjohnbarnes.blogspot.com/2012/06/hobo-queen-of-sciences.html

tl;dr version (though its quite a good read, as his books that I have read so far): Girl in her class tried using angry pounding shouting as a debate tactic, and when asked about it, she declared it was "logic." "I was totally logical. I pointed things out real loud and told people they were dumb if they didn't believe it, and I yelled so they'd get the point."

Yeah. Back in my day "Logic" was a little bird tweeting in the meadow, nowadays its "agrees with me."

This article from Reuters says 1,000...

Google: government requests to censor content "alarming"

Also, this all stems from Google's own blog/press release: More transparency into government requests

That's why it's called a "request". Words mean things.

So what's driving the requests?

There's far more information to request. Whether or not you agree with the notion of government requests for information, would you really expect requests to remain flat, or go down, when the pool from which information is being requested is getting dramatically larger? Yes, it's newsworthy -- that's why you're reading this story -- but it's not inappoprtiate.

It's a request -- it is not illegal for the the US government to make a request of a business. It has never been illegal, and this is not some kind of "post-9/11" construct as some will assert. Government has been able to ask business for assistance since the founding of our country, and it does not run counter to the letter or spirit of the Constitution. Government is part of our society, and it is lawful for it to communicate with other components of our society.

Government cannot compel a particular response without a warrant or court order: Google is not obligated to respond to the a request that is not accompanied by a warrant or court order in any particular way. Google may CHOOSE to comply with a request because there is nothing inappropriate about a business deciding to comply with a lawful request from a government agency. Fortunately, if you don't like Google's policy, you can choose not to use it.

In other words, if you have an issue with Google complying with a US government request, your problem isn't with the US government -- it's with Google.

Google policy analyst Dorothy Chou told me in an interview prior to the data’s release that one example of the requests might be for the IP addresses of users who log into their Google accounts, which law enforcement agents use to locate individuals involved in criminal cases such as kidnapping.

She says Google requires that the requests are submitted in a written form, come from the appropriate agency, cite a criminal case and are sufficiently narrow in their demands in terms of which users are affected and what time frame of data is requested. "The data can often be very critical to a case," says Chou. "We want to show that we're advocating on your behalf. But we also want to do right by the spirit and letter of the law."

[...]

"We noticed that government agencies from different countries would sometimes ask us to remove political content that our users had posted on our services. We hoped this was an aberration. But now we know it’s not," reads the post from Google’s Chou. "Just like every other time before, we've been asked to take down political speech. It’s alarming not only because free expression is at risk, but because some of these requests come from countries you might not suspect—Western democracies not typically associated with censorship."

For example, in the second half of last year, Spanish regulators asked us to remove 270 search results that linked to blogs and articles in newspapers referencing individuals and public figures, including mayors and public prosecutors. In Poland, we received a request from a public institution to remove links to a site that criticized it. We didn’t comply with either of these requests.

See also Google's official blog post.

The main problem with the music industry is not the artists, they don't make any money off album sales; not because of pirating, but because the distributors suck every last penny from the sales. The RIAA is not made up of artists, they are made up of distributors. The distributors are no longer needed in digital distribution, so they are losing money, the artists are not losing money, as they always made their money from the live performances.

When you try to defend the music industry, really think about who you are defending because it isn't the artists.

Very well said.

I think the time will come that musicians will be making some real money from the recordings, which has never been the case before, because they get to keep a much, much higher percentage.

It was a sad day for the big labels when indie artist Amanda Palmer brought in over a million dollars ($1,192,793, to be exact), independently of the labels, to mix, distribute, and promote her new album. On her Kickstarter page there's a video where she explains the whole thing, and points out that if she'd financed the album by letting a record label do it, she herself would wind up receiving zilch from the album sales.

All she needed was a twitter account, a facebook account, a Kickstarter account, and 25,000 friends.

Here is the proof

tiles...icons...whats the difference?

(Mod parent interesting - lots of people think this way)

If you are a beginning interface designer, that's the way it seems. Tiles may even seem better since they have more space and so let you represent the application better. A more experienced interface designer will realise that once you have tens or hundreds of applications screen size becomes precious and small regular icons are much better. The regularity of icons allows users to get used to standard actions and most efficiently use space. This is not even some new discovery, AOL made the same mistake as Microsoft years ago and people learned from that.

Good design is pretty difficult to do. Most of us will get it wrong and, if you look at early Android designs you can see how even a company with real user interface experties can end up with a very derivative design. However, most people can easily recognise designs which are better than others. Companies like Google are able to iterate towards good design. Microsoft is one of the few which shows real social failure and, as put best in this internal Microsoft video shows a real ability to make better things into worse things.

It takes a serious level of social ineptitude to give your major new product release the same colour as shit. Microsoft fails to learn from the Zune becuase the kind of people who go to work for them are the kind of people who just don't want to take humanity into account. The tile is a symptom of failure. The fonts in Windows phone, which are designed to look cool at first glance but are unusable long term, are the real heart of the matter. It all comes down to a total contempt for their own users and human beings in general.

about #4:
how about the treasurer at a church?
http://onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com/2011/05/mary-shepard-victim-of-thug-and-chicago.html

There are actually some decent people in both parties but they don't get any support in the primaries because both parties are controlled by their respective extremist members. Of course to the extreme lefties like you, someone in the middle would seem extreme. Someone who pushed compromise would be a right wing tool. They actually rate politicians on a scale with 0 being left and 100 all the way right. Ted Kennedy was at one time rated a 10 when Dukakis was running for president. Dukakis was a 0. That's the way things roll. I'm not sure where President Obama rates but I'm sure you probably see him as a moderate since he's gotta be a dozen or so points right of Joe Biden's nuttiness. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mrkL0GQOaE0/TzppKi79mdI/AAAAAAAAAKA/Gc-KKvhWTqw/s1600/political+spectrum.jpg

See the axis labels, PC1 and PC2? Those are the principal components. The percentages are the amount of the variance that is explained by those principal components.

Here's the same data, presented by someone else: http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2010/08/novel-component-in-genetic-structure-of.html

The leaders of the human genome project had to swear up and down that they wouldn't discover racial differences. Now genomic testing has disproven the less-than-a-century-old lie that race doesn't exist.

Captcha is "legacies".

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MwY_gqY1TVc/TrZ88Y5jUvI/AAAAAAAAWgA/4-PXMkrB3fE/s1600/vote-for-nobody.jpg

Some believe that everything that ails computing, from the software unreliability and low productivity crisis to the current parallel programming crisis, can be blamed on the computer industry's strange infatuation with Turing. When you have some time, ask yourself what Turing has done for parallel programming or software unreliability. Heck, Charles Babbage's analytical engine was a Turing Machine a century before Turing. Go figure.

Parallel Computing: The End of the Turing Madness

However, it's not my fault because my boss bought a shit cell phone that can't sink up with whatever

shit cell phone that can't sink up with whatever

sink up

Good god, man. It's synching. Short for synchronizing. Or am I just not hip with the newspeak?

Good god man, it could also be syncing. http://thelousylinguist.blogspot.com/2010/09/syncing-vs-synching.html.
I personally think synching looks like it should be pronounced "cinch-ing".

Please learn about daemon mode.

emacs --daemon
alias edit='/usr/bin/emacsclient -n -c -a nano'
edit somefile.txt

If you didn't previously start emacs, it will start nano. Either way, you'll have super fast editing without the need for vi. Of course, you can always use vi in place of nano - or whichever editor you prefer.

Is it any sillier than the realization that web browsers have become at least as much of an operating system as Emacs is? But then Emacs has become a web browser too...

Edwin Vanderbruggen http://edwin-vanderbruggen.blogspot.com/ Edwin Van der bruggen http://edwinvanderbruggen.com/

Beautiful landmarks of Buenos Aires. And then, you got the other side of the coin, less than 5km away, and in the middle of the same city.

That last one is the first thing a tourist arriving to BA by bus will see.

Well in the shop I have everything running on a KVM to a 19inch Dell so lucky me I only need one monitor for work and one for home, which is a 20 inch Dell that was given to me brand new by that customer that had the fire, he was having hell dealing with the insurance so I just handed him 3 older towers and some CRTs that hadn't sold at the shop and just told him "You hang onto these until you get that mess straightened out, don't want you to be shut down while you deal with the red tape". So when he got the money he came by the shop and ordered the parts for me to build him some new towers and had me throw 4 monitors in the cart. when the boxes were built and he came to load them up i reached to load in the fourth and he said "That's yours, I don't forget those that help me when i'm down" and slapped $400 above the cost of the job in my hand and refused to take it back. So its nice to know that karma does come back around from time to time.

Anyway if you decide you want a nice big monitor for the basement keep an eye out on your local Craigslist, anything that isn't a laptop or tablet will often sell for stupidly cheap on there. I recently helped a customer pick up a 32 inch trinitron from a CL ad, damned nice set, beautiful picture, know how much he paid? $110. Guy had gotten a plasma and didn't want it anymore. Hell I had a buddy that wanted a little netbook and we scored him an Atom dual core, nice little Dell Mini, $80. Hell it was so new the guy still had the original packaging. Got him an iPad and decided he didn't want it, simple as that. I swear there are some seriously stupid people on that site. I got myself a brand new still in the box Rogue electric acoustic bass in a beautiful black tigereye for $50. College kid decided playing guitar was 'cooler" so he played it a week and put it back in the box, makes a wonderful bass for sitting on the porch or playing a little unplugged. So keep an eye out, you can score some crazy deals if you keep your eyes open.

BTW if its just stuck pixels you might want to give this a try as it might fix it. Its really a coin flip when it comes to stuck pixels but hell its free and the worse it'll do is leave you in the same position you are in now, so couldn't hurt.

Try to not use your real name when posting on tech forums. You come across as insecure and not knowing.

And with your name, you should consider changing it, because prospective employers like to google names, and find things like
Spamming: http://luni.org/pipermail/luni/2010-July/027748.html
Drug charge: http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/914/1527/243231/
Alleged wifebeating and stabbing attempt: http://on-suicides-deaths.blogspot.com/2009/04/nh-man-killed-in-lakes-region-crash.html

Those might not be you, but a prospective employer might not spend the extra time on finding out.

Claiming the benefit will be "future potential" is doing this. The future is always tomorrow.

(image taken from here, which probably isn't original source)

Comments like yours fill me with a sense of despair for the future because there are so many people like you.

You despair for the wrong reason.

Essentially, you're the kind of person who would be absolutely shocked if, after you smeared dog shit on someone's face, they got mad at you for smearing dog shit on their face. Rather than note the obvious fact that they got pissed because you just smeared dog shit on their face, you'd have to come up with some justification for what you did, like, "he has freckles and hates people who don't."

I think you would be shocked to actually learn what is going on since you don't actually seem to know, or really have a good idea. This ultimately isn't about the US, it is about them - the Islamist extremists, their goals, and aspirations. Their kind was conquering and killing for hundreds of years (more like 1,000) before the US came along. Read Bin Laden's demands in his Letter to America. His first actual demand is that the United States convert to Islam. Second, he wants the Constitution replaced with Sharia law in all its glory: stone the adulterer, crush homosexuals under walls or throw them off of buildings, whip the immodest, chop off the hands of thieves, no drugs or alcohol, no interest charged on loans, and all the rest. That isn't a demand to "stop smearing shit on my face", that is the demand of a man determined to see the world under Islamic rule even if it takes 1,000 more years. This was a man who wanted to see the restoration of the Islamic Caliphate, which existed until ~ 1924. Their grievances is that Islam has fallen from its former glory, and they intend to restore it. They want to retake Spain which pushed out Islamists rulers hundreds of years ago.

  What al-Qaida Really Wants

If you want to despair, then do it over the fact that this conflict could easily continue for 20, 50, or 100 more years as these flare ups of Islamist extremism do. Or Londonistan , or Eurabia

In a shrinking world, the extremists will probably never be far away.

Think about this: POVERTY, EDUCATION, AND TERRORISM

These facts should be well known by now. How is it that people keep getting this wrong eleven years after 9/11/2001?

At the The Other September 11th, the Battle of Vienna, the Islamist attackers were outside the gates trying to get in. In future battles, we will find them inside the gates, and too many of the defenders of the West ignorant and in doubt, or even ready to throw in with them.

As I wrote, you despair for the wrong reason.

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